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    ROXON’s 60 conveyors for LKAB Malmberget: design and layout notes for mine engineers

    June 17, 2026|

    Reviewed by Joe Ashwell

    ROXON’s 60 conveyors for LKAB Malmberget: design and layout notes for mine engineers

    First reported on International Mining – News

    30 Second Briefing

    ROXON Oy has secured a major contract to design, manufacture and install 60 conveyors for LKAB’s new iron ore sorting plant at Malmberget in northern Sweden. The plant forms part of a roughly €550 million (SEK 6 billion) investment programme by LKAB to upgrade processing infrastructure and sorting capacity at the site. Conveyor design choices, layout and installation sequencing will be critical for handling high-tonnage iron ore streams in Arctic conditions and integrating with existing crushing and screening circuits.

    Technical Brief

    • Contract scope explicitly covers design, fabrication and on-site installation of all 60 conveyor units.
    • Centralised conveyor supply should standardise components, easing spares management and maintenance planning across the new plant.
    • Large conveyor count suggests multiple parallel ore streams, enabling redundancy and flexible routing during maintenance.
    • For similar brownfield upgrades, bundling conveyors into one EPC-style package can reduce schedule and interface clashes.

    Our Take

    The conveyor package for LKAB at Malmberget sits alongside NCC’s SEK 650 million civil works order for the Vitåfors sorting plant, signalling that major surface infrastructure for LKAB’s iron ore upgrading in Gällivare is now moving from permitting into full execution phase.

    With Sweden’s Land and Environmental Court recently granting LKAB an expanded mining permit at Malmberget, the 60‑conveyor order looks timed to underpin higher long‑term ore handling capacity rather than just replacement of existing plant.

    In our database of iron ore project pieces, LKAB is one of the few European operators simultaneously investing in underground haulage electrification (via the Scania tipper deployment at Malmberget) and large‑scale surface conveying, suggesting a coordinated push to reduce diesel haulage and truck dependency across the value chain.

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    Prepared by collating external sources, AI-assisted tools, and Geomechanics.io’s proprietary mining database, then reviewed for technical accuracy & edited by our geotechnical team.

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